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Metal By Numbers 10/30: Motörhead’s 21st Album Shocks The Charts

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week.

When it comes to metal (or really any kind of music), there’s a “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” outlook on a band’s musical direction. If a band changes its sound, there is the risk of fans having an outcry over the new direction. On the other hand, a band that doesn’t change its sound much between albums will cause fans to ask why its the “same stuff over and over”. When it comes to Motörhead and its 21st album, they fall in the latter category namely because 1) They are Motörhead, and 2) They play rock n’ roll. Also, Lemmy just doesn’t give a fuck. With that, here are the numbers for this week.

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A Pale Horse Named Death, the project featuring former Life Of Agony and Type O Negative members will release their new album When The World Becomes Undone on January 18th, 2019 via Long Branch Records/SPV. Today (14th), the group are streaming the new song “Vultures.” Check out the track below and pre-order the album here.

Blink-182’s Travis Barker’s Musink festival will return in March at the OC Fair & Event Center in Costa Mesa. The event is scheduled to run from March 8th-10th as Suicidal Tendencies and Limp Bizkit will be next year’s headliners. While we are still waiting for a third headliner to be announced, other acts include Hatebreed, […]

KoRn guitarist James “Munky” Shaffer joined Hyro the Hero onstage earlier this week (4th) during Hyro’s performance at the Viper Room in Los Angeles, CA. Shaffer’s surprise guest appearance was for the song “Devil In Disguise,” taken from Hyro’s latest effort Flagged Channel. Check out the fan-filmed clip below: [via Revolver]

It looks like Mastodon are working on their follow-up to 2017’s Emperor of Sand. Drummer/vocalist Brann Dailor shared an image via Instagram of himself and guitarist Bill Kelliher confirming new music is in the works. Check out the image below: View this post on Instagram […]

Machine Head’s Robb Flynn has revealed he will perform at Stars to the Rescue XXVIII, which is scheduled to be held on January 26, 2019 at Lesher Center for the Arts in Walnut Creek, CA. Flynn will have a 30 minute performance as he announced his participation in the below video: Tickets are available at […]